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Vanguard’s Empty Promises

This report (1) critiques Vanguard’s governance practices and charitable giving vehicles and (2) highlights how Vanguard’s loose definitions of social justice and inadequate screening tools allow capital to be deployed to extractive industries via funds touted as both environmentally and socially responsible.

A Revenue Generation Playbook

How to Fully Fund Our Communities Communities across the country are organizing to redirect resources toward meeting community needs and achieving genuine and lasting safety for all of us. Many are targeting police, prosecutor, jail and prison budgets that are

Breaking Up With Bad Banks

There has been growing recognition over the last decade of the destructive role that big banks have played in our society, harming our communities and our planet. There is wider awareness now of the ways that big banks worsened racial economic inequality, by both redlining certain neighborhoods, preventing families of color from buying homes, and also targeting those same neighborhoods for high-cost predatory loans that stripped homeowners of their wealth.

21st Century Policing

21ST CENTURY POLICING: The Rise and Reach of Surveillance Technology Sitting at the intersection of criminalization and capitalism, the use of emerging surveillance technology has become increasingly popular among police departments in the United States over the last few decades.

Fueling the Fire

Fueling the Fire: Why any fossil fuel industry bailout will be disastrous for communities of color | OCT 2020

Cancel Wall Street

How Our State and Local Governments Can Save More Than $160 Billion a Year by Cutting Interest Payments to Investors | by Saqib Bhatti and Brittany Alston | SEP 2020

Poi$on

How Big Pharma's Racist Price Gouging Kills Black and Brown Folks | August 2020 | Report by Sharon Post and Maurice BP-Weeks